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Gifts for Our Time
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Germany 1939, and Christa Sommer boards the Kindertransport, unsure that she’ll ever see her beloved mother and father again. Once in England she is taken in by elderly Mrs Pelling, who grows to love Christa as the daughter she never had. But in 1945 Mrs Pelling dies. While her will cannot be found, her money-grabbing niece appears out of the blue to claim her inheritance and turfs Christa out, with only a suitcase to her name. The prejudice against Germans still runs high in England, and Christa is unable to secure a job or a place to stay … Luck comes her way when a lady she saves from being mugged turns out to be Mayne Esher’s friend Daniel’s mother. Taking pity on Christa, they take her to Rivenshaw where they plan to start a new life as part of the Esher building firm. There Christa is welcomed with open arms and she soon develops a love for the place, the people and, Daniel … But Esherwood is not the trouble-free sanctuary she first thinks. Determined to do their bit for soldiers returning from the war. Ex-Library: Good Tidy condition
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Pulse
$8.00
WITH THE STAKES SO HIGH, RACING CAN BE A DEADLY BUSINESS

Chris Rankin is a doctor, a specialist in Emergency Medicine at Cheltenham Hospital, but a doctor who also has health problems.
 
A smartly dressed man has been found unconscious at the local racecourse and is rushed to the hospital, where he subsequently dies. But who is he? Where does he come from? He had no form of identification on him, and no one claims the body.
 
Doctor Rankin is intrigued by the nameless dead man, obsessed even, and starts asking questions. However, someone doesn’t want the questions answered and will go to any lengths to prevent it, including attempting murder. But no one else believes that someone tried to kill Chris, leaving the doctor no option but to discover who the nameless man is and why he died, preferably before following him into an early grave.

The Francis brand of thrillers are bigger and bolder for a new generation!

Praise for Felix Francis’s novels:

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Not that Kind of Girl
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Henrietta Tate has always taken her role as a full-time mother and home-maker very seriously. She’s never had time for anything else. But now she and her family have moved to an idyllic house in the countryside and her teenage children are away at boarding school most of the time, she finds herself less than fulfilled by life in the sticks. Perhaps a new job working for Laurence de Havilland, the famous military historian, could provide just the distraction she needs…
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Hearts Aflame and Surrender My Love Two books in one volume.
$10.00
With more than 54 million copies of her books in print and translated into 12 languages, Johanna Lindsey is one of the world’s most popular authors of historical romance. Now here are two of her bestselling novels together in this omnibus edition: Hearts Aflame, and Surrender my Love. Very Good: Almost like new.
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Foursome
$8.00

Rebecca, Daniel, Alex and Isabel have been best friends since university. Rebecca married Daniel, Alex married Isabel and, for 20 years, they have been inseparable. But all that is about to change…

When Alex walks out on Isabel Rebecca thinks things can’t get any worse. But then she finds out the reason why and she’s left harbouring a secret she’d rather forget…

And not only that, Alex’s new girlfriend just happens to be Rebecca’s skinny, neurotic, self-obsessed colleague, Lorna, her arch nemesis at work and now a regular feature in her social life too.

They say you should keep your friends close and enemies closer but sometimes your best friend can become your worst enemy……

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Fallen Gods
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The heat is on for DCC Bob Skinner, Scotland’s most revered and, in some circles, most feared cop. His career hangs by a thread, as a recent illness gives his enemies a weapon to use against him. A body found in the detritus of a flood is identified as the hated brother whose existence he has kept hidden for years. On the crime front, an incendiary device destroys a valuable painting in the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh. As Skinner and his team tackle these crises, his wife Sarah, left in America with their children to recover from the loss of her parents, finds comfort with an old college lover. When fate leaves her staring at a seemingly inevitable murder conviction, Bob will need all his fearsome resources to sort out the tangled mess his life has become. But is he still up to the challenge…’
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Beneath the Shadows
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When Grace’s husband, Adam, inherits a cottage on the Yorkshire moors, they leave London behind to try a new life. A week later, Adam disappears. The following year, Grace returns with her baby daughter, Millie . She is desperate for answers, but resigned to preparing the cottage for sale. With no-one prepared to divulge their secrets, Grace finds herself unwilling to trust anyone. Then, just as snowfall threatens to cut her off from the rest of the world, she makes a terrible discovery. In the aftermath, she realises that she has been looking in the wrong place for answers all along. In the wild winter weather she sets out to reclaim her daughter from the one person seemingly intent on taking Millie away, praying that she will reach them in time. .
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Secret Keeping for Beginners
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Even the closest families have secrets … it’s when they are shared that things begin to change. The lives of three very different sisters collide in this witty new novel from bestseller Maggie Alderson. Recently divorced Rachel is juggling her new dream job in interior design PR with the demands of two young daughters. She’s full of creative ideas but – even with a colourful childminder or two – some days she can’t make it into the office in time and in matching shoes. Her life is balanced more precariously than she cares to admit. Tessa, a talented muralist, is feeling flat. Her kids are growing up and she’s feeling upstaged by her husband’s new-found celebrity as the host of a reality TV fireplace restoration show. But everything turns on its head when she gets a surprise from her past. Youngest sister Natasha leads a glamorous jetsetting life – she’s one of Vogue’s favourite make-up artists who regularly creates the looks for the biggest shows in Paris and Milan. Single and childless, she’s been focused
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The Stone Carvers
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Father Archangel Gstir, a good-natured Bavarian priest, has been sent to the wilds of Canada to set up a new parish. He recruits Joseph Becker to create a crucifix. Many decades later his granddaughter Klara who has learnt Joseph’s skills is called upon to carve a monument to the Canadian dead. Good: Very tidy condition
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Currawong Manor
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“Currawongs appearing at the manor in vast numbers had come to portend one thing… death was on its way. When photographer Elizabeth Thorrington is invited to document the history of Currawong Manor for a book, she is keen to investigate a mystery from years before: the disappearance of her grandfather, the notorious artist Rupert Partridge, and the deaths of his wife, Doris, and daughter, Shalimar. For decades, locals have speculated whether it was a terrible tragedy or a double murder, but the shocking truth of what happened at the manor that day has remained a secret. Relocating to the manor, Elizabeth interviews Ginger Lawson, one of Rupert’s life models from the forties, and Dolly Shaw, the daughter of the enigmatic ‘dollmaker’ who seems to have been protected by the Partridge family. Elizabeth is sure the two women know what happened all those years ago, but neither will share their truths unconditionally. And in the surrounding Owlbone Woods, a haunting presence still lurks, waiting for the currawongs. Very Good: Very tidy condition.
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An Uncertain Place
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Commissaire Adamsberg leaves Paris for a three-day conference in London. With him are a young sergeant, Estalère, and Commandant Danglard, who is terrified at the idea of travelling beneath the Channel. It is the break they all need, until a macabre and brutal case comes to the attention of their colleague Radstock from New Scotland Yard.
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Sex and Stravinsky
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The time is 1995, but everybody is linked by their past. Brilliant Australian Caroline can command everyone except her own ghoulish mother, which means that things aren’t easy for Josh and Zoe, her husband and twelve-year-old-daughter.
Josh has bizarre origins in a South African mining town, but now teaches mime in Bristol. Zoe reads girls’ ballet books and longs for ballet lessons; a thing denied to her until, on a school French exchange, she meets a runaway boy in a woodland hut. Meanwhile, on the east coast of Africa, Hattie Thomas, Josh’s first love, has taken to writing girls’ ballet books from the turret of her fabulous house – that’s when she can carve out the space between the forceful presence of Herman and her crosspatch daughter Cat who, after some illicit snooping, is secretly planning a make-or-break essay on mask dancers in Mali. Hattie wakes from a dream of Stravinsky’s Pulcinella and asks herself about the composer, ‘Do his glasses look sexy?’ His glasses are just like Josh’s glasses from two decades earlier. From far and wide, they are all drawn together; drawn to Jack’s place. Or is he Jacques? Or Giacomo?
Beautiful, mysterious Jack, the one-time backyard housemaid’s child who, having journeyed via Mozambique and Senegal to Milan, is back exactly where he started – only not for long.
In its mix of people from different spheres, the book throws up the complexity, cruelty and richness of the global world while, as a sequence of personal stories, it comes together like a dance; a masquerade in which things are not always what they seem.
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Electricity Makes Things Work
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This text is about the making and moving of electricity, one of the most widely used sources of energy used today. Other text forms include an explanation and a pictorial time line.
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Brothers in Hope The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan
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Eight-year-old Garang is tending cattle far from his family’s home in southern Sudan when war comes to his village. Frightened but unharmed, he returns to find everything has been destroyed.Soon Garang meets other boys whose villages have been attacked. Before long they become a moving band of thousands, walking hundreds of miles seeking safety — first in Ethiopia and then in Kenya. The boys face numerous hardships and dangers along the way, but their faith and mutual support help keep the hope of finding a new home alive in their hearts.Based on heartbreaking yet inspirational true events in the lives of the Lost Boys of Sudan, Brothers in Hope is a story of remarkable and enduring courage, and an amazing testament to the unyielding power of the human spirit.

Fair: Minor scuff marks around the edges.
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The Ultimate Question 2.0 How Net Promoter Companies Thrive in a Customer-driven World
$22.00
In the first edition of this landmark book, business loyalty guru Fred Reichheld revealed the question most critical to your company’s future: “Would you recommend us to a friend?” By asking customers this question, you identify detractors, who sully your firm’s reputation and readily switch to competitors, and promoters, who generate good profits and true, sustainable growth.

You also generate a vital metric: your Net Promoter Score. Since the book was first published, Net Promoter has transformed companies, across industries and sectors, constituting a game-changing system and ethos that rivals Six Sigma in its power.

In this thoroughly updated and expanded edition, Reichheld, with Bain colleague Rob Markey, explains how practitioners have built Net Promoter into a full-fledged management system that drives extraordinary financial and competitive results. With his trademark clarity, Reichheld:

* Defines the fundamental concept of Net Promoter, explaining its connection to your company’s growth and sustained success
* Presents the closed-loop feedback process and demonstrates its power to energize employees and delight customers
* Shares new and compelling stories of companies that have transformed their performance by putting Net Promoter at the center of their business

Practical and insightful, The Ultimate Question 2.0 provides a blueprint for long-term growth and success.
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Day and Night
$7.00
Simple text and photographs introduce day and night, showing the differences in the sky, and the different activities of people and animals during day and night. Suggested level: junior.
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On Beulah Height
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Into thin air…
Three little girls, one by one, had vanished from the farming village of Dendale. And Superintendent Andy Dalziel, a young detective in those days, never found their bodies–or the person who snatched them. Then the valley where Dendale stood was flooded to create a reservoir, and the town itself ceased to be . . . except in Dalziel’s memory.
Twelve years later, the threads of past and present are slowly winding into a chilling mosaic. A drought and dropping water table have brought Dendale’s ruins into view. And a little girl has gone missing from a nearby village. Helped by Chief Inspector Peter Pascoe, an older, fatter, and wiser Dalziel has a second chance to uncover the secrets of a drowned valley. And now the identity of a killer rests on what one child saw . . . and what another, now grown, fears with all her heart to remember . . . . Good: Tidy condition
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The Brutal Art
$8.00
When renowned psychiatrist and art expert Ethan Muller discovers a cache of disturbing, previously unknown drawings by a long-dead, reclusive artist, he believes he has uncovered a priceless artistic treasure. As Ethan investigates the mysterious origins of the artwork, he becomes convinced that the haunting images may be linked to a series of unsolved child murders dating back decades. His search for the truth draws him into a dangerous web of obsession, deception, and buried secrets. As the investigation intensifies, Ethan finds that the line between artistic genius and madness becomes increasingly blurred, and that those protecting the past are willing to kill to keep it hidden. Blending psychological suspense with an exploration of the art world, The Brutal Art is a literary thriller that examines obsession, morality, memory, and the unsettling power of disturbing works of art. Good: tidy condition.
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Triptych
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When Atlanta police detective Michael Ormewood is called out to a murder scene at the notorious Grady Homes, he finds himself faced with one of the the most brutal killings of his career: Aleesha Monroe is found in the stairwell in a pool of her own blood, her body horribly mutilated. As a one-off killing it’s shocking, but when it becomes clear that it’s just the latest in a series of similar attacks, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation are called in, and Michael is forced into working with Special Agent Will Trent of the Criminal Apprehension Team – a man he instinctively dislikes. Twenty-four hours later, the violence Michael sees around him every day explodes in his own back yard. And it seems the mystery behind Monroe’s death is inextricably entangled with a past that refuses to stay buried … Good: Tidy condition.
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The Sword of Truth
$6.00
Series premiere special price! Two families-the Wakefields of nobility and the lower-class Morgans-are the focus of this sweeping generational saga, joined by intriguing personalities such as Elizabeth I, William Tyndale, and John Bunyan. Linking the people and events through the ages is the struggle of men and women who sought God as the answer to their difficulties. #1: The Sword of Truth Myles Morgan’s discovery of his noble heritage introduces him to a fascinating new life in the English court and to the political conflict surrounding the translation of the Bible into English. Fair: Minor marks on the covers,
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The Vivero Letter
$8.00

Action thriller by the classic adventure writer set in South America.



Jeremy Wheale’s well-ordered life is blasted apart when his brother is murdered. The killer was after a family heirloom – an antique gold tray – which sets Wheale on a trail from Devon to the tropical rainforest of Yucatan. There he joins the hunt for a lost Mayan city. But in the dense cover of the jungle a band of vicious convict mercenaries are waiting to strike…

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Work in Progress
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Bohemians believe that if you travel light and live for today, you’ll never grow old …Novelist Max Napier didn’t set out to make a mess of his life but if you choose to entertain romantic notions and a raffish self-image, it’s always on the cards. Now on the brink of turning 50, he’s alone in his little flat, out of ideas, out of love and out of fashion. A chance meeting with an old friend arrests the spiral, but not all the ghosts from Max’s past are benevolent and there are tricky curves to negotiate on the road to redemption and emotional renewal. Paul Thomas’ new novel is an acute, darkly comic portrayal of changing times and the baby boomer generation in the shadow of mid-life crisis.
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The Unknown Bridesmaid
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When Julia was eight, she was asked to be a bridesmaid at her beautiful cousin Iris’s wedding. Her mother saw this as a chore – expensive, inconvenient – but Julia was thrilled. When the time came, even the fact that her bridesmaid’s dress didn’t fit, and was plain cream rather than the pink she’d hoped for, couldn’t ruin the day. But after this, things began to go wrong for Julia, starting with an episode involving her cousin’s baby, a pram and a secret trip round the block.
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Five Days
$8.00

Is it ever too late to find the life you always wanted? A modern day Brief Encounter or The Bridges of Madison County, this is a novel which poses the ultimate romantic dilemma, from the bestselling author of The Pursuit of Happiness, A Special Relationship, and The Moment.

Is it ever too late to have the life you wanted? Or do we owe it to ourselves to pursue the promise of happiness?

For twenty years, Laura has been a good wife and mother. She’s supported her husband through redundancy, she’s worried about her son, she’s encouraged her daughter. She has been constant, caring and selfless.

She’s stopped thinking about her own dreams, the places she’d like to go and the books she’d like to talk about.

But a chance meeting with a man in a hotel lobby – and the five days that follow – remind Laura of the young woman she used to be, and the woman she could have become.

How long does it take to fall in love and leave your life behind. Good: Tidy condition.

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The Health Revolution Cookbook
$6.00
The Health Revolution Cookbook is a health-focused cookbook that promotes nutritious, whole-food eating as a foundation for improved health and wellbeing. Published during the growing health food movement of the early 1980s, it emphasizes natural ingredients, minimally processed foods, and recipes designed to support a healthier lifestyle. The book combines practical cooking guidance with recipes intended to make healthy eating both accessible and enjoyable. It includes a range of everyday dishes using fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, and other wholesome ingredients, while encouraging readers to reduce their reliance on refined and heavily processed foods. Alongside the recipes, the authors present general ideas about nutrition and the benefits of dietary change, reflecting the health philosophies that were popular at the time. Fair: Minor stains around the edges of the pages. Binding is good.
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Milk and Honey
$8.00
This reissue of MILK AND HONEY will have a powerful, beautiful new package, guaranteed to gain the internationally bestselling author, Faye Kellerman, even more fans
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The Cost of Not
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A book about the cost of not providing sufficient specialist health care for bariatric patients. This book is written in a children’s book format, but is aimed at the adult reader. It is a simplistic look at the cost of not providing the correct equipment for patients with special needs here in New Zealand. Good: Tidy condition.
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Incredible Super Trivia
$8.00
Miscellany on a wide variety of topics is presented in a dictionary format. An awesome collection of trivia with which to amaze of annoy your family and friends. Postman Cliff from the sitcom Cheers would love this book. Hard cover in good tidy condition.
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Silverfin
$8.00
The dark waters around a remote Scottish castle hold a sinister secret – one man with a thirst for power will use it, whatever the cost. Silverfin must be stopped, and there is only one boy who can do it. Bond. James Bond.
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